Lebor gabála Érenn : The book of the taking of Ireland
eBook, English, 1938-1956
Published for the Irish texts Society by the Educational Company of Ireland, Dublin, 1938-1956
Irish Texts Society (Series), v. 34, 35, 39, 41, 44, v. 34-35,39,41,44
1 online resource (5 pts. : ill.)
1048228701
Irish and English on opposite pages
"A compilation which professes to narrate the history of ... successive colonists ... The earlier redactions have come down to us ... in fifteen mss. ... They fall into redactional groups, essentially at variance in the selection ... of the narratives, and in the language ... The editor has no alternative but to print them in extenso."--p. [ix], pt. 1
"These different histories appear..to have been still available in their separate form, when Nennius wrote his Historia Britonum, about the end of the eighth century."--p. xxviii, pt.1
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